Victoria

Informationen zum Autor Born in 1859, Knut Hamsun published a stunning series of novels in the 1890s: Hunger (1890), Mysteries (1892) and Pan (1894). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920 for Growth of the Soil . Klappentext Forced by circumstances into perverse cruelty to one another! Johannes & Victoria live their lives apart until! in the last tragic pages! we see that Victoria cannot live without her Johannes. Zusammenfassung A miller's son, Johannes, falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy landowner, Victoria. The novel follows them through adolescence, as Johannes struggles with the social hierarchy and becomes a successful author, and Victoria is forced into marrying Otto, a lieutenant, to save the troubled family economy.A lyrical excursion into unconsummated love, love that is described memorably as 'Blood and Blossoms'.

Product details

• Authors: Knut Hamsun, O. Stallybrass
• Assisted by: O. Stallybrass (Translation), Oliver Stallybrass (Translation)
• Publisher: Souvenir Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2001
• EAN: 9780285647596
• ISBN: 978-0-285-64759-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Condor Books
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature